After a few dark years, automakers will be flooding the zone of this year's Super Bowl with more fancy advertisements than ever. But why wait for the game? Enjoy your viral marketing now, and our ratings from one to five stars on each:

Bumblebee transforms, kicks ass in Chevy Super Bowl ad
In many ways, this may be the most confusing ad of them all. Is Chevy selling Camaros, "Transformers 3" or the bravery of small-town mascots? And yet, like all Michael Bay productions, our lizard brains just don't seem to care. ✩ ✩ ✩ ✩

Chevy Camaro gets hot for teacher in Super Bowl ad
Chevy will have five ads in this year's Super Bowl, and this one might not appear until after the game, even though it fits the mood perfectly. That said, Chevy does build vehicles other than Camaros. ✩ ✩ ✩